On the morning of the 11th, Osaka Prefecture officially requested the Self-Defense Forces to dispatch a nurse, saying that the number of seriously ill patients has increased rapidly due to the spread of the new coronavirus and the medical system is tight.
While the number of critically ill patients is increasing rapidly in Osaka Prefecture, the required number of nurses is not gathering at the "Osaka Corona Severe Severity Center," a medical facility dedicated to critically ill patients with the new coronavirus, which will start operation on the 15th of this month.
Therefore, on the morning of the 11th, Governor Yoshimura of Osaka Prefecture requested the Self-Defense Forces to dispatch a disaster based on Article 83 of the Self-Defense Forces Act.
From the Self-Defense Forces, for two weeks from the 15th to the 28th of this month, one nurse and two associate nurses will be at the "Osaka Corona Severe Center", and one nurse and three associate nurses will be at the Nakakawachi Emergency and Critical Care Center in Higashi Osaka City. Is scheduled to be dispatched.
Of these, the team dispatched to the "Osaka Corona Severe Center" will include nurses who belong to the Defense Medical College in Saitama Prefecture and can handle nursing in the ICU = Intensive Care Unit.